Nature
Counting-Out Rhyme
From The Buck in the Snow and Other Poems (1928)
Nature
Silver bark of beech, and sallow
Bark of yellow birch and yellow
Twig of willow.
Stripe of green in moosewood maple,
Colour seen in leaf of apple,
Bark of popple.
Wood of popple pale as moonbeam,
Wood of oak for yoke and barn-beam,
Wood of hornbeam.
Silver bark of beech, and hollow
Stem of elder, tall and yellow
Twig of willow.
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MLA
Millay, Edna St. Vincent. “Counting-Out Rhyme.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/millay/182/.
Chicago
Millay, Edna St. Vincent. “Counting-Out Rhyme.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/millay/182/.
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